Indirect Playback goes through them first. Also, they host DynDNS for the Plex media server to make accessing it remotely from apps easier.

The second thing is a joke to host and requires no resources. The first one can be a significant resource usage item.

I’m using a Ryzen Mini PC running Debian and Flex Launcher.

Works well as both a media consumption machine and light gaming rig.

Xfinity/Comcast hijacks DNS, even if you use another DNS server (they just redirect DNS requests to them). I suspect that they’re using it for analytics data to sell while disguising it as “security”.

They also block access to root DNS servers, so you can’t use a full DNS Resolver run locally. It’s super f***Ed.

If you want to ensure they don’t do it, use your own modem and always force DNS over TLS.

Doesn’t matter who makes the software, as long as it’s open sourced and audited.

Just because you can doesn’t mean anyone does. I’ve never seen an ISP hand out “private” IPv6 addresses. Ever.

If you’re doing NAT on IPv6, you’re doing it wrong and stupid. Plain and simple.

Network Prefix Translation isn’t the same thing. That’s used for things like MultiWAN so that your IPv6 subnet from another WAN during a failover event can still communicate by chopping off the first half and replacing the subnet with the one from the secondary WAN. It is not NAT like in IPv4 and doesn’t have all of the pitfalls and gotchas. You still have direct communications without the need for things like port forwarding or 1:1 NAT translations.

I’m a Network Engineer of over a decade and a half. I live and breath this shit. Lol.

CGNAT only applies to IPv4. You cannot NAT IPv6 effectively. It’s not designed to be NATed. While there IS provisions for private IPv6 addressing, nobody actually does it because it’s pointless.

It’s why IPv6 is important, but many didn’t listen.

Yes, but OP mentioned nothing about Cloudflare.

Sweet. Both OPNSense and pfSense firewalls have the ability to tie into MaxMind’s GeoIP service. Not sure what your perimeter device is, but it’s pretty easy on those. And free.

Best solution is a VPN to your home network.

However, if you want to host it publicly, at least restrict access to it via GeoIP. For example, if you live in Europe and only need access from there, only allow the areas in Europe you travel to and block everything else. This will greatly reduce your attack surface.

Also, make sure everything is patched. Always. And implement something like fail2ban to deny repeated failed logins, along with a reverse proxy.

If purchasing isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t stealing.

Host your own Wireguard endpoint on any cloud provider. They give you elastic IPs that you can create 1:1 NATs for your hosts. Maybe not quite as clean, but effectively the same thing.

The SATA controller on the motherboard. The thing you plug your SATA cable into.

I kind of get it. MinisForum and companies like it have sort of carried the torch of what the NUC started. I loved the NUCs, but this was kind of inevitable.